Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 494 Can Sheep Understand Human Language?
Wang Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, then shouted excitedly:

"The cauldron was wrong, and it cried out."

You know what, Wang Xiaoli's reaction speed was quite fast. Wang An felt like he was at a loss for words when he was asked this question.

At this critical moment, Zhang Shuya, who couldn't bear it any longer, said to Wang Xiaoli:
"Your elder brother is just teasing you. Sheep can't understand human language."

However, although what Zhang Shuya said was true, the two girls did not believe it. Wang Xiaoli blinked her big eyes and asked:
"Sister, how can Dahei understand what I say?"

Wang Xiaomei also said:
"Yeah, Xiao Hei can understand me too."

After Wang Xiaomei finished speaking, she demonstrated it herself, turned around and shouted to the little black dog not far away:
"Xiao Hei, come here."

I saw Xiao Hei, who was lying on the ground, first looked up at this side, then stood up and ran over.

About two or three seconds later, Xiao Hei ran up to Wang Xiaomei, looked at her with his head and tail wagging, and seemed serious and happy.

Wang Xiaomei squatted down with a smile, hugged Xiaohei's neck and became intimate with him. Wang Xiaoli also immediately came forward and hugged the dog's waist.

Then the two girls gave Xiao Hei a beating without any mercy.

When Zhang Shuya saw this scene, she really didn't know what to say, while Wang An and his wife and Wang Dazhu and his wife were also looking at the scene thoughtfully.

The main thing is that if the two young ladies were asked the same questions, they wouldn’t be able to answer them.

You can't keep making things up, can you?

Fortunately, the two girls probably felt that petting one dog was not enough, so they led Xiao Hei to the doghouse and completely forgot about the question of "whether sheep can understand human language".

I have to say that although these two girls are still children, they speak very rigorously and know how to support their opinions with facts.

Of course, everyone who has raised a dog knows that dogs are indeed much more intelligent than other animals.

But in the children's cognition, animals are actually the same and should be able to understand human language, so the two girls' questions are really difficult to answer.

Seeing that the two girls were having a good time with the dogs, Liu Guilan immediately called Wang Andao:

"Xiao An, don't just stand there, hurry up and kill these two sheep, and stop them from crying out."

"Oh, okay, mom."

Wang An agreed and stabbed one of the sheep in the neck. As Wang An turned the knife handle, the sheep's blood flowed out along the knife.

After a while, the sheep's blood stopped flowing, and the sheep was only exhaling but not inhaling.

Finally, after the sheep's four legs bounced a few times, it was completely freed from the sea of ​​suffering in this world and its soul ascended to paradise.

Before Wang An cut the second sheep, he said to Wang Dazhu:

"Dad, you have to help me get a basin, and put some salt and hot water in it. The blood of this sheep needs to be used for enema."

Wang Dazhu agreed and turned back into the house.

While waiting for the basin, Zhang Shuya pointed to the basin of sheep's blood and asked Wang An:

"Xiao An, there was no water in this basin just now, do you want to add some now?"

It can be heard from Zhang Shuya's words that she has no idea about slaughtering sheep, or has never seen it before.

Because before bloodletting, salt and hot water are added to the basin. The main purpose is that the concentrated salt water can slow down the clotting time of the blood.

If you want the blood to coagulate faster, you need to add less salt and more cold water. The salt here is mainly to make the blood have some flavor after it is cooked.

Wang An glanced at the basin of sheep's blood and said:
"That's for stewing mutton offal. Just add some more cold water later." Seeing Zhang Shuya's confused look, Wang An simply explained the reason.

Zhang Shuya listened and nodded and said:

"This is eating sheep's blood, and there is something to it."

Wang An said with a smile: "I can tell from the first glance that you are not from the countryside. This is nothing to talk about."

Zhang Shuya shook her head and said:
"I also moved to the city later, but as far as I can remember, my family didn't have pigs or sheep."

Wang An nodded but did not refute. The main reason was that in the early years, people still operated in a collective system and individuals were not allowed to raise livestock and poultry.

The reason why Wang An knew all this was that every year during the Chinese New Year, the brigade would slaughter pigs and sheep and distribute the meat to each family.

Wang An and other children would naturally come forward to watch out of curiosity.

You know, things like slaughtering pigs and sheep, although some are quicker and some are slower when getting started, it doesn't look difficult at all.

As the two were talking, Wang Dazhu came out with a basin with a rolling pin in it.

After Wang Dazhu put the basin in place, Wang An stabbed the second sheep's neck with a knife.

This time, Wang Dazhu did not walk away, but kept holding the rolling pin and stirring the salty water and sheep's blood in the basin.

Because only when the salt water and sheep's blood are fully mixed together will the sheep's blood coagulate more slowly.

When the sheep was completely dead, Wang An and Wang Dazhu each picked up a sheep carcass and threw them into the big pot in the yard at the same time.

After a while, when all the sheep were soaked in hot water, everyone worked together to scrape off all the hair on the sheep with knives, just like removing pig hair.

I have to say, sheep are different from pigs after they shed their wool.

After a pig sheds its hair, its skin doesn't feel smooth, but after a sheep sheds its hair, the whole sheep looks like jade, smooth and delicate.

After collecting the wool and gutting the sheep and removing their heads and hooves, everyone divided the work together.

Wang An and Zhang Shuya were responsible for disassembling the sheep's cavity, Wang Dazhu was responsible for cleaning the sheep's intestines, stomach and other internal organs, Liu Guilan was responsible for chopping the sheep's fat and preparing the sheep's blood, and Mu Xueqing was responsible for boiling the sheep's offal and steaming the sheep's blood.

As for Miss Wang Xiaomei and Miss Wang Xiaoli, one was in charge of the east stove pit and the other was in charge of the west stove pit, and they were only responsible for making fire.

Only Wang Yi did not do any work because he went to school.

Soon, as Wang An and Zhang Shuya dismantled the two sheep's carcasses with sheepskins, the whole sheep was pushed into the pot.

Of course, whether it is lamb chops, lamb legs or lamb ribs, they all come with lamb skin and lamb meat.

I don’t know about other places, but in Northeast China, sheep spine is called sheep ribs.

In Wang An's opinion, there is no need to blanch the mutton before stewing it, you just need to scoop out the floating foam on the surface.

And stewing lamb does not require any seasoning, just throw two handfuls of salt grains into the pot.

Because only in this way can the original flavor of the lamb be preserved to the greatest extent!

Even though everyone worked together, it was still two hours before everyone was able to eat the blood sausage, mutton with sheepskin, and drink the delicious mutton soup.

It was somewhat regrettable that Wang Yi could only wait until after school in the evening to eat the mutton of the other sheep.

(End of this chapter)